Chapter 109: Ranking Rewards

The Beast was unaware that, in some distant place, a Biochemical Digimon had appeared—after all, he was not a god. The time now was just past midnight. With the help of a caretaker, the Beast donned the gaming headset.

The reason was simple: after midnight, the instance for the Twelve Imperial Demon Digimon would begin. At that time, rewards would be distributed based on the rankings on the leaderboard. Moreover, after midnight, his key would become usable.

To be honest, the Beast had previously received completion rewards, and he was quite intrigued by the creations made by that so-called Vulcanus Digimon. Therefore, whether it was the leaderboard rewards or the treasures from the Twelve Imperial Demon vault, he had some interest in them.

Because he had logged out directly from the Twelve Imperial Demon instance, and though the instance had ended by then, the arena itself had not disappeared.

[Congratulations, player Beast, for dealing a total of 1,200,000 damage to the Twelve Imperial Demon Digimon, ranking first! Well deserved! Well deserved!] As soon as the Beast logged in, several large letters floated across the sky, as if anxious that no one might miss seeing them.

In fact, the leaderboard had always been visible. When the Beast singlehandedly defeated the Gompilord Digimon, he had already checked it. At that time, with 100,000 points of damage, he ranked third.

From this, it could be inferred that the highest damage dealt to a single Imperial Demon Digimon was about 100,000 points. The Beast’s third place was likely due to others having defeated different Imperial Demon Digimon.

Of course, if more people entered the instance, the maximum damage on the guarding Imperial Demon Digimon might break through higher limits. But the Beast was not entirely sure.

At that time, the fourth place belonged to someone named Tsundere Digimon; second place was a player named Earthfield Music; and first place was a player called Ten God Light.

In any case, thereafter, every time the Beast ventured out, he checked the leaderboard. Yet, his ranking and those of the other top five players fluctuated, never settling into a fixed order.

When the Beast logged out, he held first place with 1,200,000 damage. Second was Tsundere Digimon with 1,090,000 damage, third was Ten God Light with 950,000, and fourth was Earthfield Music with 930,000.

From this, although the Beast appeared to be in first place, he knew the second-place player might have completed all twelve instances or perhaps only eleven; it was unclear if they could still tackle the final one. As for third and fourth places, they likely had at least two or three instances unfinished.

Now, upon logging in again, the Beast still held first place with 1,200,000 damage. However, second place had shifted from Tsundere Digimon to Ten God Light, whose damage had surged to 1,199,998—just two points shy of matching the Beast’s score. Truly, timing and fate.

Third place was Tsundere Digimon with 1,180,000 damage, and fourth was Earthfield Music with 1,160,000. The damage values among the top four were remarkably close. Fifth place stood at 1,090,109.

Beyond the top five, no one had reached the million-damage mark. Even sixth place, closest to that threshold, had only 999,909 points—just ninety-one points short of a million. Alas, that tiny gap was the difference between crossing into the million-damage realm or not. Again, timing and fate.

Next, the Beast and the others received their rewards from the leaderboard. The rewards were straightforward: each point of damage translated directly into one point of experience for player leveling.

This meant that as long as a player had participated in the event and contributed something—anything beyond idling—they would receive some experience points.

For the Beast, 1,200,000 experience points was a significant sum. Although the required experience per level increased drastically at higher tiers—so much so that at the very peak, this amount might barely register a fraction of a percent—at his current relatively low level, it propelled him up several levels. He was now level twenty-three.

After leveling up, there were still other tasks to attend to. The 1,200,000 experience was the total leaderboard reward, but the segment-specific rewards had yet to be distributed.

The leaderboard recorded only the top one hundred players. Those beyond this rank could not find themselves listed; at best, a small number appeared in the bottom right corner of the leaderboard.

In short, since the leaderboard only recorded the top hundred, segment rewards were likewise limited to those players. Those ranked beyond a hundred received a flat reward of one silver coin.

One silver coin was not much, but when spread across the countless players in the server, it represented a substantial loss for the Digimon Corporation.

Following that, players ranked from tenth to one hundred also received monetary rewards, though with some variation. For example, those ranked ninety-first to one hundredth received only two silver coins.

This continued for the twenty-first to thirtieth ranks, which gained stacked silver coins. But the eleventh to twentieth ranks received gold coins instead.

Rank twentieth earned one gold coin; nineteenth earned two, and so forth—each higher rank granted an additional gold coin.

From first to tenth place, the rewards were split into two tiers.

Ranks fourth through tenth received gold coins, with the tenth place already earning thirty gold coins. Every rank higher than tenth added more gold coins accordingly.

The top three not only received gold coins but also each obtained a piece of equipment. However, the specifics of these items were not displayed, so the Beast had no idea what the other two had received.

Fortunately, he at least knew what he had earned himself—and, to be honest, he was quite pleased with it.